The Spring 2025 class will meet online with Mrs. Moss, through Zoom, every Wednesday afternoon, from 3:30-5:30pm, on the following dates:

• 3/26/2025

• 4/02/2025

• 4/09/2025

• 4/16/2025

• 4/23/2025

• 4/30/2025

• 5/07/2025

• 5/14/2025

• 5/21/2025

• 5/28/2025

• 6/04/2025

Course Description

At each level, LitQuest’s Critical Reading program extends beyond the standard book club class to offer students a real head-start in school and beyond as critical thinkers, readers and writers. Our comprehensive literacy training will engage students in learning strategies for reading analytically as well as responding to texts in writing and through discussion. Each week, both individually and in small groups, students will receive rotating reading roles/missions to guide their discovery of important elements of the text, direct their purpose(s) in taking active reading notes, facilitate group discussion, and help them lead class seminar-debate-oral presentations. Students completing a course in Critical Reading will emerge with new competence and confidence in their ability to analyze and articulate complex ideas from literature.

What to Expect?

After an introduction to active, annotative reading on the first day of class, students will continue to practice building annotative habits each week. Each week, students will be expected to take notes on every page of the assigned portion of their class text while reading. These annotations will include, at a minimum, a bullet-point summary at the end of each chapter and a labeling of key quotes for character, setting, conflict, theme, and style. Aside from their annotative responsibilities, students will complete analytical reading charts for character and theme as well as short analytical writing prompts (every other week), each pertaining to their specific text.

Projected Areas of Development:

• Annotative Study/Habit Building

• Reading Comprehension

• Motif Extraction

• Character Analysis

• Theme Analysis

• Style Analysis

• Literary Retention and Recognition

NOTICE: On Monday, March 17th, 2025, LitQuest will send a "Welcome" email that contains a set of files to help prepare your student for their class, including a “Zoom Access” file that will grant entry to the online classroom throughout the course of the term.